Introduction to CloudStack Networking Geoff Higginbottom CTO ShapeBlue

CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2012 “ShapeBlue are expert builders of public & private clouds. They are the leading global CloudStack / CloudPlatform integrator & consultancy” About ShapeBlue

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CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2012 Why NaaS – The Use Cases VPSCloud

CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2012 Why NaaS – The Use Cases CloudVPS

CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2012  AWS Style L3 isolation – Massive Scale  Simple Flat Network  Only 1 Physical NIC per Host  Guest Instances and Hosts Share IP Schema*  Each POD has a unique CIDR  Guest Isolation via Security Groups  NetScaler Integration - Elastic IPs and Elastic Load Balancing CloudStack Networking Models Basic Networking

CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2012 CloudStack Networking Models Basic Networking

CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2012  Guest Networks isolated by VLANs  Private and Shared Guest Networks  Traffic spread across multiple Physical NICs which can also be Bonded  Virtual Router for each Account / Network providing:  DNS & DHCP  Firewall  Client VPN  Load Balancing  Source / Static NAT  Port Forwarding CloudStack Networking Models Advanced Networking

CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2012 CloudStack Networking Models Advanced Networking

CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2012  Virtual Private Clouds (VPC)  Private multi-tiered Virtual Network  Inter VLAN Routing  Site-2-Site VPN CloudStack Networking Models Advanced Networking - VPC

CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2012 CloudStack Networking Models Advanced Networking - VPC

CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2012 System VMs & Their Networks Virtual Router

CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2012 System VMs & Their Networks Virtual Router (Adv Zone)

CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2012 System VMs & Their Networks Secondary Storage VM

CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2012 System VMs & Their Networks SSVM – VM Image / ISO Upload Workflow

CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2012 System VMs & Their Networks Console Proxy VM

CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2012 System VMs & Their Networks CPVM – Remote Connection

CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2012 Communication Ports

CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2012  Management VLANs – Up to 7 Layers  Strict control of traffic flow between Management Layers  Bypassing Virtual Router  Hosts and Guests VMs on Different VLANs (Basic Networking)  Isolated Networks for Guest Management by Service Provider  Shared Networks for Guest Backups  Connecting VMs to Physical Servers via Assigned VLAN IDs  VLAN Limitations Real World Problems / Requirements

CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2012  Software Defined Networking  Remove VLAN Limitations  Bring full control of Network into CloudStack GUI  Massive Scalability  Reduce Costs The Future

Introduction to CloudStack Networking Geoff Higginbottom CTO ShapeBlue